A veteran firefighter who came to California from Washington state to fight the Woolsey fire was left with major injuries when he was run over by a pickup truck as he slept at night in a field next to a fire truck in the Malibu area, the California Highway Patrol said Thursday.

Terry Geisleman, 46, of the South Kitsap Fire and Rescue Department of Port Orchard, Washington, received crushing injuries to his chest and the left side of his body, a CHP report on the 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, incident said.

He was airlifted from the scene at Pacific View Drive, north of Highway 1, to Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks. A release from the South Kitsap Fire Chief Steve Wright described Geisleman’s injuries as not life-threatening.

The area is west of Deer Creek Canyon Park. The release did not say where along the drive the incident took place.

The firefighter was stuck by a 2015 Dodge Ram 2500 driven by a 50-year-old Los Angeles man on private property on the north shoulder of the drive. Alcohol and drugs are not suspected as factors, and no arrests were reported Thursday from the incident, the CHP said.

Wright described Geisleman, from Gig Harbor, Washington, as a veteran with 21 years experience and a “very good firefighter.” Geisleman was sleeping next to a fire truck from Washington State Gig Harbor, the CHP said.

The accident remained under investigation Thursday.

During the morning briefing for fire crew leaders in the Woolsey and Hill fires, Los Angeles County Fire Department Captain Richard Baligad, overseeing safety, told them “keep your guard up,” and suggested anyone taking a sleep break find a spot “on the rig, in the rig, or somewhere safe.”

A journalist since 1975 for City News Service in Los Angeles, The Associated Press in Los Angeles and New York, and The Press-Enterprise, Richard K. De Atley has been Entertainment Editor and a features writer. He has also reported on trials and breaking news. He is currently a business reporter for The P-E. De Atley is a Cal State Long Beach graduate, a lifelong Southern Californian (except for that time in New York -- which was great!) and has been in Riverside since 1992.